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The bilby's life cycle:

Bilbies start breeding at around six months old. They usually give birth to two young at a time, and breed throughout the year, so may have up to eight young in one year.

Being a marsupial, the young joeys are born after a short gestation period of about 2 weeks, so are very undeveloped. They crawl by instinct into the mother's pouch, where they latch onto a teat which swells in their mouth, securing them so they don't fall out of the pouch. Female bilbies have backward-opening pouches, which prevent soil entering the pouch when they are digging.

They feed on mothers' milk and stay in the pouch for about 75 - 80 days, after which they are kept in a nesting burrow for a few more weeks.

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